Wednesday, July 08, 2020

coming home

We are currently at the Toronto Pearson Airport. We should arrive in Calgary around midnight (mountain standard time).
Yesterday, we sped through some popular tourist attractions in Berlin, most of which we got into for free with our Legoland passes because they have partnerships throughout Europe.
We visited the Brandenburg Gate and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The girls and I went to Madame Tussauds wax museum while Liam stayed outside with Dean because Dean thought it would be too spooky. We all went into the big beautiful Berlin Cathedral together.
Then Liam went to the Neues Museum while the rest of us went to Sea Life and to Little Big City.
In Germany, it is required to wear a mask while in public buildings and on public transit.

Ila at the Brandenburg Gate

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

standing in the center of the Memorial

another picture from the center of the memorial, looking up

Freya and Katy Perry

Mei and Albert Einstein

Ila being counselled by Sigmund Freud

Freya and William Shakespeare

Mei and ET

Dean looking up in awe at the ceiling of the Cathedral

Dean lighting a prayer candle

Berlin Cathedral alter

a Royal coffin at the Berlin Cathedral

The Berlin Cathedral

...so there is actually an entire store dedicated to Ampelmann

Sea Life

Dean in the Atlantis Maze at Sea Life

Dean with oversized statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
...and Freya is in the picture somewhere too.

Ila zooming around Alexanderplatz on an electric scooter.
Freya had been begging me to rent one the whole time
 we were in Europe so I finally did on one of the last days.

Mei with Neptunbrunnen, the Neptune Fountain

Little Big City, the Brothers Grimm

Little Big City, Hitler's underground bunker

Little Big City, St. Mary's Church

waiting in line for almost two hours outside the Berlin airport

getting on the flight to Amsterdam from Berlin

Berlin to Amsterdam

Amsterdam to Toronto

Dean sleeping facedown in his neck pillow at the Toronto airport.
It's the middle of the night for this poor guy.


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